oil business

1. 1.

   an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products

   Synonymsoil industryrefining industry

   Broaderindustry

Questions about oil business

What does oil business mean?

oil business means "an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products".

What is another word for oil business?

Close synonyms include oil industry, refining industry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oil business a common word?

oil business is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.